Born at Dudley, Worcestershire, in January 1902, he founded the Young Men's Bible Class at Vicar Street Methodist Church in the town in 1925.
Bissell, who worked as a probation officer, led a pilgrimage party from the Bible Class to the summit of Ben Nevis on VJ Day in 1945 and constructed a "Peace Cairn", in later years the subject of some controversy.
[2] The expedition from Dudley to Fort William was repeated annually thereafter, a tradition which continued for some 50 years and was revived in 2014.
His funeral was held at Vicar Street Methodist Church on 10 November and he was buried in the churchyard at Glen Nevis.
In 2001 a limited edition book, "Bert Bissell Remembered", with contributions by 60 local writers, was published by Fairway Folio.